Irish government officials, accountants and highly skilled workers say the U.S. tax plan poses little threat to Ireland, a preferred European home for the United States’ top tech and pharmaceutical companies. They expect American companies to keep investing unabated in Ireland, with little incentive to move back to the U.S.

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve is raising its key interest rate for the third time this year and foresees three additional hikes in 2018, a vote of confidence that the U.S. economy remains on solid footing 8½ years after the end of the brutal recession.
The Fed announced Wednesday that it’s lifting its short-term rate by a modest quarter-point to a still-low range of 1.25 percent to 1.5 percent. It is also continuing to slowly shrink its bond portfolio. Together, the two steps could lead over time to higher loan rates for consumers and businesses and slightly better returns for savers.

The Federal Reserve is raising its benchmark interest rate for the third time this year, signaling its confidence that the U.S. economy remains on solid footing 8½ years after the end of the Great Recession.
The Fed is lifting its short-term rate by a modest quarter-point to a still-low range ...

The central bank lifted its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point to a range of 1.25 to 1.5 percent, a widely expected move that the Fed said is happening because America’s economy continues to improve.

Federal Reserve monetary policymakers on Wednesday nudged up their key interest rate again and sharply increased their forecast for the economy's performance in 2018 as Congress neared passage of a large tax cut package.

Fed officials voted 7-2 after a two-day meeting to increase the rate by a...

Lost amid all the focus on sexual harassment, Roy Moore, and the presidential tweets of the day is the fact that the Children's Health Insurance Program will run out of money in February, sooner in some states. The program was created two decades ago to ensure health care for kids whose parents don't have a lot of money, yet make too much money to qualify for Medicaid.

A stark class divide has emerged in the Senate race, as elites worry about Republican Roy Moore’s effect on business. The opinion pages of state newspapers also have been filled with dire warnings about what message a Moore victory might send.

The gaslighting over at Trump-TV continues unabated. Trump spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders made an appearance on Jesse Watters' show on Fox "News" this weekend and helped the host attack former President Obama for taking credit for the economy Trump inherited :
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said it's "laughable" that former President Barack Obama is trying to take credit for the booming economy.
During a speech at the North American Climate Summit in Chicago on Tuesday, Obama said “we saw the U.S. economy grow consistently” after he focused on clean energy and carbon pollution regulations.
“We saw the longest streak of job creation in American history by far,” Obama said. “A streak that still continues, by the way. ‘Thanks, Obama.’”
"I think it's laughable that President Obama thinks he has anything to do with the success of where the economy is right now," Sanders said on "Watters' World."
She pointed out that the U.S. gross domestic product growth rate has steadily gone up since ...

At the moment, people in the US are enduring a numbing assault from an authoritarianism brought to full fruition under Donald Trump. However, a galvanizing hope can shape a new vision and activism that will be transformative in the battle against an oppressive capitalism, says author and scholar Henry A. Giroux, who talked to Truthout about his new book, The Public in Peril.
Hundreds of University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee students protest a Trump campaign rally on their campus, January 1, 2014. Protests by young people could become illegal in the future, according to Henry A. Giroux. (Image: Joe Brusky / Flickr )
What are the longer-term trends that gave rise to the presidency of Donald Trump? What will be the national and global impacts? And what do we need to do to resist? Henry A. Giroux tackles these questions in The Public in Peril: Trump and the Menace of American Authoritarianism. "This courageous and timely book is the first and best book on Trump's neo-fascism in the making," says Cornel West. ...